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D. M. GOODRICH.

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APPLICATION FILED OCT. 20, 1916.

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YORK, AS SIGNOB TO UNITED PAPER BOX COMPANY OF AMERICA, INC., OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, CORPORATION OF 'YORK I BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1918.

Application filed October 20, 1910. Serial no. 120,644.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID M. Gooonicn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Kisco, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

It has been proposed heretofore, tomake necked or collared pasteboard and similar boxes, such, for example as those of the cigarette box type, by forming the boxbody or tray from a flat blank with cutout corners, by bending or foldlng up the marginal wings of such flange between the corner cuts to provide the rim of the body or tray, which, of course, is mte al w1th the bottom or head. Such rim has een covered with a finish paper wider than the depth or height of the rim, the upper protruding longitudinal edge portion of the paper be-. ing folded over the correspondmg edge of the rim and down against the inner surfaces, to which it is adhered by paste, lue, or the like, the opposite longitudinal e ge-Qportion of the paper being folded over against the lower or outer face of the box -bottom or head and glued or pasted thereto, such cover-strip, therefore, acting also as a binding to hold the bent ears or wings constituting the rim in roper rectangular position or right-angle re ation.

A paper-covered neck or collar of the usual type was made in any approved manner and inserted in the body or tray, the latter preferably being somewhat temporarily s read or expandedto facilitate the insertlon, or the neck slightl distorted momentarily or momentarily eformed to ease its assembly with the box.

Boxes of this kind tend to have certain defects which it is the object of this invention to overcome or eradicate. The rim having been bent up from the bottom has a tendency to expand or bulge out of true rectangular shape, which tendency is not overcome by the introduction of the neck, and the corners of the rim are somewhat weakened becausethe pasteboard joints at these places are held together merely by the paper. Boxes of this kind tend to have outwardlybulging sides or walls.

According to the principles of the present invention, the collar or neck is made integral with the box body bottom or head, and the paper-covered rib is wrapped or folded around it so that the bulgin tendency of the wings formin the foun ation or body of the neck is e ectively overcome by the restraining influence of the stronger form of rim employed. The latter, as well as the neck, is paper covered, and the cover-paper of the rim is bent over and glued to the bottom of the box, thus forming a binder. I

In order that those skilled in this art may have a full and complete understanding of the invention and its advantages, I have illustrated a preferred embodiment of the same in the accompanying drawing, throughout the various views of which like reference characters refer to the same parts.

In this drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the blank used to form the bottom of the box and the neck or collar;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of such blank with its wings bent up to constitute the neck and covered with the finished paper;

Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4: shows the flat superposed pasteboard and paper blanks used for forming the box rim;

Fig. 5 illustrates the paper folded over one edge of such fiat pasteboard blank and adhered to its opposite face;

Fig. 6 indicates the duplex rim bent around the neck or collar and the bottom of the box;

Fig." 7 is a similar view showing the coverpaper for the rim folded over against and adhered to the bottom;

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the finished box-element; and

Fig. 9 is a cross-section on line 9-9 of Fig. 8.

The bottom and neck or collar of the box are made from a rectangular pasteboard or cardboard blank 12 having cut-off corners 13, 13, with intermediate wings 14, 15, 1c, and 17. These wings or marginal portions are bent up to form the rectangular neck at right-angles to the bottom on the folding lines 18, 19, 20, and 21. Then such upstanding neck is provided with a cover-paper 22 partlally covering its outer faces and having an upper marginal portion 23 bent over the top-edge of the neck and down into the cause it to adequately adhere to both faces of the neck.

This cover or finish paper acts to hold the bent-up ears in place, the joint of the paper being present at the point characterized 24:. Inasmuch as the rim of the box is to surround this neck it is not necessary to cover its.

entire outer face with the finish paper, in fact, it is preferable not to do so in order to secure better adhesion between the neck and the rim, as explained hereinafter.

The pasteboard blank 25 to form the box rim and its cover-paper 26 wider than the pasteboard, are united while both are still fiat by means of a suitable adhesive, as illustrated in Fig. 4, with the two longitudinal margins of the paper extended beyond the corresponding edge of the pasteboard. It is also desirable that the paper at the point 27 should extend beyond the corresponding end of the pasteboard to constitute a fastening tab. Then one edge portion 28 of the paper is folded over the adjacent edge of the pasteboard, as shown in Fig. 5, whereupon this duplex strip is bent around the neck of the partially-completed box to form the rim with the upper edge 29 of the latter somewhat removed from the corresponding edge 30 of the neck so that the latter will project beyond the rim in the usual manner. As will be readily understood the tab 27 overlaps the opposite end of the rim and acts to hold the latter' in place, either the duplex blank or the outer surface of the neck having been previously supplied with glue or paste, whereby when the rim is bent around the neck they will adhere together.

After such folding, one edge portion of the. paper 31 projects beyond the bottom of the' box, and this adhesive-coated protruding part is then folded over on to the lower face of the bottom and adhered thereto, so that the paper covering the rim constitutes not only a finish but also a binder attaching the rim to the box bottom. The finished box is illustrated in perspective in Fig. 8 and in cross-section in Fig. 9.

It should be noted that in this box-ele ment the neck, composed of the four wings, is integral with the bottom of the box and is covered with a suitable finish material such as paper. The surrounding and con fining rlm, however, is made from a separate blank of cardboard suitably covered with paper or the like and attached to the bottom by the overlapping portion of the hinder or cover paper, the rim acting to prevent outward bulging of the neck, which it has a tendency to do. Stated somewhat differently, the duplex walls of the box are so reinforced and strengthened that they maintain their rectangular formation without difiiculty, the tendency to outward bowing being overcome in the manner indicated.

By making a box in this manner the necessity for expanding the box temporarily to facilitate the insertion of a neck or the contraction of a neck for a like purpose is obviated, because in this case the rim is built around the ,neck, no insertion being required. The complete operation can therefore be conveniently performed in a single compact machine.

I claim:

1. A box-element having a bottom, a neck projecting at right-angles from and integral with said bottom, a rim of les height than and surrounding said neck with its lower edge in substantial register with said bottom, a cover-strip for said neck having a marginal portion folded over the upper edge of the neck and downwardly against its inner surface to which it is adhered,-a binder-strip for said rim having a marginal portion folded over the upper edge of the rim and downwardly against its inner surface to which it is adhered and another marginal portion bent over and secured to the lower face of said bottom, substantially -tion folded over the upper edge of the rim and downwardly against its inner surface to which it is adhered, substantially as described.

. 3. A box-element having a bottom and a neck projecting therefrom at right-angles,

a rim of less height than and surrounding said neck with its lower edge in substantial register with said bottom, and a cover-strip for said rim having a marginal portion folded over the upper edge of the rim and downwardly against its inner surface to which it is adhered, substantially as described.

DAVID M. GOODRICH. 

